Article July 20, 1963 Issue

A Year of Joyous Activity

[A report from a branch church in Wisconsin]

Our Sunday School is vigorous, active, and well staffed with excellent teachers. Our members have truly awakened, and with great enthusiasm, to the depth and tremendous scope of the Sunday School work. We have experienced a year of joyous activity, and the growth continues. Three years ago it was necessary to enlarge our Sunday School room to accommodate ten additional classes. At the present time many classes are overflowing, and again we seem to need additional space. Our new enrollments for 1962 almost doubled the figure of new pupils enrolled in 1961. Our records also indicate that three hundred and nine young people visited our Sunday School during the year, again nearly doubling the number of those who visited during 1961.

Letters were sent by the superintendent to new pupils and visitors upon their enrollment or attendance. To foster the expanding consciousness of good in each pupil and to bring to light new opportunities to love and serve mankind are the major goals of each teacher. Since our Sunday Schools may be considered the most important youth movement of the world today, our prime purpose is to forward the Cause of Christian Science by teaching the children how to utilize the revelation of Mary Baker Eddy in all their activities.

Our Leader writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 37), "It is possible,—yea, it is the duty and privilege of every child, man, and woman,—to follow in some degree the example of the Master by the demonstration of Truth and Life, of health and holiness." That the pupils are following this example is evident, for smashed fingers, measles, boils, poor schoolwork, fear of diving, burns, effects of ivy poisoning, a fall from a bicycle, earaches, and other discords, all responded to Christian Science treatment as practiced by them. The pupils' joyous and sincere gratitude for their healing experiences is truly inspiring to the Sunday School staff, as well as an influence for good in the community in which they live.

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